Barry Albert Mannakee - 1985

There were wild rumours the Princess had been having an affair with Mannakee

Princess Diana is said to first have had a wandering eye with her bodyguard and confidant, Barry Mannakee, back in the Eighties.

He worked as a police officer with the Royal Protection Squad before being assigned to Princess Diana as a bodyguard in 1985.

Palace rumours of their relationship are said to have led to his dismissal from the role a year later and Princess Diana even suspected foul play when he died tragically in a motorcycle accident in 1987.

In a video obtained by NBC, she said: "I was only happy when he was around. I think he was bumped off ... We'll never know."

The princess never mentioned Mannakee by name in the secret tapes when she spoke of a man she was in love with but it was assumed she was referring to him.

But Diana said in the tapes she was "deeply in love" with the unidentified security guard and was "quite happy to give all this up and to just go off and live with him".